Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2011

WIP Wednesday.....

Here we are again, Wednesday...
I missed last weeks WIP because I wasn't well and didn't do too much of anything.
This week however, has been a different story.

I have a customer quilt loaded that I am doing custom quilting on. I have stitched all the seams in the ditch and now I'm onto the freehand quilting. I am really enjoying it.

The quilt has beautiful embroidered birds....

Freehand swirls on a spine...


For my personal sewing I thought I had better get Oscars dinosaur quilt underway. I promised it to him last year.
It's a printed panel with dinosaurs on it and I am doing stack'n'slash blocks to go around it.

Stack'n'slash is always fun and easy....


On these cold wintery nights it's nice to snuggle down with some yarn and crochet some granny squares. The only trouble with it is the squares are never big enough to make me warm. lol. I'm getting lots done. I want it to be quite big so I'll be going on it for a while I think.


Hope you are having fun with whatever you are doing.
I have linked up over a Freshly Pieced. Go over and check out all the inspirational blogs.

Happy Quilting
Leanne xo

Friday, 22 July 2011

Sorry for the Absence.....

Sorry I haven't been posting. We have just got back from a holiday to Melbourne and we were straight back into school and work.

A little of what I have been doing.





I picked up my crochet hook again and with some really nice yarn I am having fun with granny squares with a twist.

I will post about our holiday soon.

Happy Quilting
Leanne xo

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Learning to Crochet

The thing about having boys is that I thought I wouldn't be able to pass on all the things I love to do most because they are too "girly". Well I was wrong! My boys have watched me craft their whole lives and to them it is natural for anyone to be doing it. So when I pulled out my crochet the other day I was surprised be asked "Can you show me how to do it Mum". "Of course, I can" . The concentration on Oscars face is intense.He did really well. I don't think he'll be doing it full time, now he knows how hard it is and I'm not just a "Grandma" doing an easy blanket. My Grandma taught me to crochet when I was about Oscars age ( 10 ) and it's something I've always loved to do.






Happy Quilting & Crocheting
Leanne